Karl Braun is German, cultivated and self-effacing; he tunes pianos for a living. When he moves into a boarding house in Pimlico, everyone assumes that he has fled Nazi Germany, when in fact... read more
This short modernist masterpiece is set mostly in Paris of the 1920s among expats, drifters, lovers and Bohemians. T.S. Eliot praised its 'style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wi... read more